An excellent tool to add a little bit more interest and pop to your animations in…After Effects, the Paint tool. You can paint on any video layer and Paint…will give you the ability to create a much more hand drawn stylized look for your…animations. Let's look at the composition we're…working with right now. I'm going to load up a RAM preview.…(SOUND) Let's go ahead and stop playback. As you can see, it's rather shaky footage…that we'll definitely stabilize later in the title.…

But for now, I like how it's shaking around the scene.…I want to add some shaky paint strokes behind the word RIDE so we can better…stylize it and match the whole scene together.…Now, the Paint Engine works on any layer, so we need to be in the Layers panel.…I'm going to paint directly on our video layer.…So let's go ahead and double-click on Layer 2 to open the Layer panel.…Now, there's a preset Paint workspace, so let's go up to the Workspace option and…change it from Standard to Paint. Now, just so I can see more clearly what's…

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11/3/2014

Released

6/17/2013

Delve into the world of motion graphics, keying, and compositing in After Effects CC. In this course, Ian Robinson lays out six foundations for becoming proficient with After Effects, including concepts such as layers, keyframe animation, and working with 3D. To help you get up and running with the program, the course begins with a project-based chapter on creating an animated graphic bumper. Next, explore the role layers play in compositions and find out how to add style to your projects using effects and graphic elements. Last, see how to build 3D objects with CINEMA 4D Lite, as well as stabilize footage, solve for 3D cameras, and paint in graphics with the Reverse Stabilization feature.

Topics include:

Video terminology

Creating your first composition

Using layers, masks, blend modes, and track mattes

Parenting objects

Building complex objects with Pre-compose

Exploring the ray-traced 3D renderer

Understanding the order of effects

Creating 3D projects from Illustrator files

Lighting a scene

Animating type on a path

Using Keylight for green-screen footage

Rotoscoping

Archiving projects

Skill Level Appropriate for all

14h 51m

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3,005,560

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Q: This course was updated on 6/18/2014. What changed?

A: We added new movies to the "Fundamentals of After Effects"
chapter, reorganized and re-recorded the "Up and Running" and "Keying
Green Screen Footage" chapters, and added new movies on Color Finesse 3
and masking individual effects.

Q: When I try to open a project file, After Effects tells me I need to update my system, since the file was made with version 13.0. But I already installed the most recent After Effects update. Why can't I open the project?

A: In
the latest round of updates, Adobe chose to create a completely new
installer for this latest version. While you may have updated the version of After Effects CC you have installed (12.x), there is an entirely new
After Effects install for 2014 (13.0). Check for an After Effects CC (2014) item in the Creative Cloud app and download and install it from there.

After you install the new version, you should be able to open 13.0 projects. After Effects CC (2014) will coexist with the older version of After Effects on your machine. If
you currently have any shortcuts on your computer to launch After
Effects, you may have to go back into the Programs folder and create a
new shortcut to the newer version, After Effects 2014.

Q: This course was updated on 11/03/2014. What changed?

A: We updated 25 movies to reflect changes to the Creative Cloud 2014 release of AfterEffects. This includes the new optimized user interface and enhanced Cineware and CINEMA 4D Lite pipeline. The new movies are labeled with the "(CC 2014.1)" tag.